Pakistan vs England 3rd Test Day 5 highlights: Pakistan seal the series 2-0 with emphatic win

SHARJAH: Pakistan have England in Sharjah Test by 40 runs to win the series 2-0, courtesy to magical performance from spin cordon at Sharjah Cricket Stadium.

England resumed their innings from 46-2, Root and Cook started off the proceedings but soon Pakistani spin asset Yasir Shah sent back Joe Root on 6 runs.

Zulfiqar Babar sent back fifty maker of England’s 1st innings James Taylor with the help of Younis Khan in the first slip, he made just 2 runs.

Yasir Shah with his magic made a way for Bairstow to walk back to pavilion without even opening his account.

Samit patel had no clue to Zulfiqar Babar’s spin and lost his wicket without even opening his account, it was a straight delivery which deceived Patel.

After losing 6 wickets at just 59 runs Adil Rashid and England’s skipper Cook resisted for a while but in swinging delivery of Rahat Ali has dismissed Adil Rashid, he departed after scoring 22 runs.

Cook is unbeaten at crease with well fighting 50 runs, Broad is helping him with 10 runs in the pocket.

Yesterday England got 284 runs to win the Test and got the best chance to level the series but Shoaib Malik shattered their dreams by taking back to back wickets last evening.

England at the moment 120-7 and it still need 164 runs to win the match where Pakistan just need 3 wickets to lift the cup.

Earlier, in the second innings, Pakistan were wrapped up on 234 runs courtesy to James Anderson’s four-for 17.

England in reply posted 306 on the board, with a handy lead of 72 runs.

Pakistan’s opener Mohammad Hafeez and and Azhar Ali started second inning in quite a confident manner, before Azhar Ali walked back on 101.

He felt prey of misunderstanding between him and Hafeez. He scored 38 runs.

Hafeez went on to produce runs and made 151 runs before returning to hut.

Pakistan team after him could not make big partnerships and were all out on 355, leaving 284 target fro England.

Misbah 38, Sarfraz 36 and Asad Shafiq 46 were other prominent scores in the second innings.

Broad took 3 for 44 from England.

	Pakistan 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	Mohammad Hafeez	c Broad b Ali	27	85	57	2	0	47.36
	Azhar Ali	c †Bairstow b Anderson	0	12	7	0	0	0.00
	Shoaib Malik	c †Bairstow b Broad	38	115	91	5	0	41.75
	Younis Khan	lbw b Anderson	31	74	58	4	0	53.44
	Misbah-ul-Haq*	c Root b Anderson	71	212	160	7	2	44.37
	Asad Shafiq	c †Bairstow b Patel	5	41	35	0	0	14.28
	Sarfraz Ahmed†	c Root b Ali	39	107	76	3	0	51.31
	Wahab Riaz	b Patel	0	4	2	0	0	0.00
	Yasir Shah	c Patel b Broad	7	21	13	1	0	53.84
	Zulfiqar Babar	not out	6	10	5	1	0	120.00
	Rahat Ali	c Ali b Anderson	4	9	7	0	0	57.14
	Extras	(b 1, lb 5)	6
	Total	(all out; 85.1 overs)	234	(2.74 runs per over)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ	0s	4s	6s
	JM Anderson	15.1	7	17	4	1.12	80	1	0
	SCJ Broad	13	8	13	2	1.00	70	1	0
	BA Stokes	11	4	23	0	2.09	57	3	0
	SR Patel	23	3	85	2	3.69	102	11	1
	MM Ali	13	3	49	2	3.76	47	4	0
	AU Rashid	10	1	41	0	4.10	38	3	1

	England 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	AN Cook*	c Azhar Ali b Yasir Shah	49	142	119	4	0	41.17
	MM Ali	c Younis Khan b Shoaib Malik	14	34	28	2	0	50.00
	IR Bell	st †Sarfraz Ahmed b Yasir Shah	40	217	158	2	1	25.31
	JE Root	c †Sarfraz Ahmed b Rahat Ali	4	19	14	0	0	28.57
	JWA Taylor	c †Sarfraz Ahmed b Rahat Ali	76	226	161	6	0	47.20
	JM Bairstow†	b Zulfiqar Babar	43	165	118	5	0	36.44
	SR Patel	b Yasir Shah	42	102	80	6	0	52.50
	AU Rashid	c Azhar Ali b Shoaib Malik	8	67	52	1	0	15.38
	SCJ Broad	not out	13	26	18	1	0	72.22
	JM Anderson	b Shoaib Malik	7	6	7	1	0	100.00
	BA Stokes	b Shoaib Malik	0	17	10	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(lb 6, nb 4)	10
	Total	(all out; 126.5 overs)	306	(2.41 runs per over)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ	0s	4s	6s
	Rahat Ali	22	12	48	2	2.18	113	6	0	(1nb)
	Yasir Shah	36	3	99	3	2.75	158	11	0
	Wahab Riaz	20	5	33	0	1.65	103	2	0	(3nb)
	Zulfiqar Babar	37	6	80	1	2.16	172	6	1
	Shoaib Malik	9.5	3	33	4	3.35	40	3	0
	Azhar Ali	2	0	7	0	3.50	5	0	0

	Pakistan 2nd innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	Mohammad Hafeez	c Bell b Ali	151	371	266	15	3	56.76
	Azhar Ali	run out (Bell/Rashid)	34	149	115	0	0	29.56
	Shoaib Malik	lbw b Anderson	0	4	1	0	0	0.00
	Younis Khan	lbw b Broad	14	53	39	1	0	35.89
	Rahat Ali	b Anderson	0	16	12	0	0	0.00
	Misbah-ul-Haq*	lbw b Broad	38	125	86	2	1	44.18
	Asad Shafiq	b Broad	46	129	109	4	1	42.20
	Sarfraz Ahmed†	b Patel	36	58	36	4	0	100.00
	Yasir Shah	c Broad b Rashid	4	17	16	1	0	25.00
	Wahab Riaz	run out (Bell/†Bairstow)	21	37	27	2	0	77.77
	Zulfiqar Babar	not out	0	4	3	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(b 6, lb 5)	11
	Total	(all out; 118.2 overs)	355	(3.00 runs per over)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ	0s	4s	6s
	JM Anderson	26	8	52	2	2.00	127	5	1
	SCJ Broad	23	6	44	3	1.91	115	5	0
	SR Patel	19	1	79	1	4.15	79	8	2
	MM Ali	21.2	1	72	1	3.37	79	4	1
	AU Rashid	29	3	97	1	3.34	113	7	1

	England 2nd innings (target: 284 runs)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MM Ali	lbw b Shoaib Malik	22	49	43	2	0	51.16
	AN Cook*	st †Sarfraz Ahmed b Shoaib Malik	63	241	164	4	0	38.41
	IR Bell	b Shoaib Malik	0	7	6	0	0	0.00
	JE Root	lbw b Yasir Shah	6	32	29	0	0	20.68
	JWA Taylor	c Younis Khan b Zulfiqar Babar	2	12	9	0	0	22.22
	JM Bairstow†	lbw b Yasir Shah	0	5	4	0	0	0.00
	SR Patel	lbw b Zulfiqar Babar	0	2	1	0	0	0.00
	AU Rashid	b Rahat Ali	22	78	72	1	0	30.55
	SCJ Broad	c Shoaib Malik b Yasir Shah	20	30	23	2	0	86.95
	BA Stokes	st †Sarfraz Ahmed b Yasir Shah	12	19	12	1	0	100.00
	JM Anderson	not out	0	4	1	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(b 7, w 1, nb 1)	9
	Total	(all out; 60.3 overs)	156	(2.57 runs per over)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ	0s	4s	6s
	Rahat Ali	5	1	23	1	4.60	19	3	0
	Wahab Riaz	5	0	25	0	5.00	18	3	0	(1nb, 1w)
	Zulfiqar Babar	18	5	31	2	1.72	86	2	0
	Shoaib Malik	15	4	26	3	1.73	68	0	0
	Yasir Shah	17.3	2	44	4	2.51	76	2	0